Wireless Health Care Service System for Elderly With Dementia

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 696 - 704
• Main Authors: Lin, C.-C., Chiu, M.-J., Hsiao, C.-C., Lee, R.-G., Tsai, Y.-S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.10.2006
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Dementia; Dementia - nursing; elder; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Female; geographic information system (GIS); Geographic Information Systems; Geographic Information Systems - instrumentation; global positioning system (GPS); global system for mobile communications (GSM); GSM; health care; Humans; Information technology; Male; Medical services; Monitoring, Ambulatory - instrumentation; Monitoring, Ambulatory - methods; Nursing Care - methods; Patient monitoring; radio frequency identification (RFID); Radiofrequency identification; Remote monitoring; Senior citizens; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Telemedicine - instrumentation; Telemedicine - methods; Telemetry - instrumentation; Telemetry - methods; ubiquitous network; User-Computer Interface; Web services

The purpose of this paper is to integrate the technologies of radio frequency identification, global positioning system, global system for mobile communications, and geographic information system (GIS) to construct a stray prevention system for elderly persons suffering from dementia without interfe...